The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-07-27
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.

LOOHL DlIl AN llLlN
Mrs. Odell the milliner, has a fine lot of
now goods.
Mrs. Sebring of Bangor, has been visiting
her daughter, Mrs. =. Mackellar.
Mrs. [. b. Conner is visiting at Rochester,
n. Y, and Ike is lone "widdyer
w. H. Filley will open restaurant and
boarding house about the first of August.
We return thanks to Mrs. Wilson for an
elegant bouquet of artificial flowers 1t IS
beauty
Jay continues his offers of last week, being
too busy to devise a new scheme or to write
a new advertisement.
The spiritualists of southwestern Michi-
gan hold four days campmeeting at Lake
Cora, commencing on Thursday, August 4th.
Miss Minnie Benham, the lady who has
been engaged to fill Miss Kimes' place in our
public school, has returned from her visit to
Ohio.
Frank Rawson who is employed at the
Kalamazoo asylum farm, made brief visit
to his friends here last week. He returned
on Monday.
Nj. l.. Richardson and family are spending
a week at Chicago, taking in the sights and
doing the city. They are staying at the
Commercial House.
w. H. Wilson recently shipped five car
loads of hogs. two from Lawrence and three
from this place, and says he has money
enough to buy more.
Stuart d. Hamilton, theological student
from New York, will officiate at ST. Marks
church until the first of September next,
morning and evening.
Rev. A. j. Scott-colored- Columbus
Ohio, will preach at Lake Park on Sunday,
July 31st Subject: There is a sin INTO
death"-1st John, 1-1G.
Eugene Labadie is once more an occupant
of the Van Buren, county Jail, awaiting the
new trial granted him by the supreme court,
for shooting Peter Hotaling.
Pending repairs so that the sprinkling
wagon could be filled, the fire engine was
used as street sprinkler 1t was very
effective, but rather expensive.
John Il. Clark, the celebrated platform
speaker, will lecture at the Longwell opera
house on Wednesday and Thursday evenings,
August Sd and 4th. Admission only fifteen
cents.
Among the campers-out at Lake Park, we
noticed Prof. Russell and family of this vii
lage, Mrs. w. II. Randall, her daughter Ada,
her sons Will and George and Mrs. Ida Finch
of Kalamazoo.
Phillips IL Smith, blacksmiths, have orna-
mented the big maple tree in front of their
shop with mammoth horseshoe. Look for
their advertisement in the NoRTHERSER in
the near future.
Died, at his residence, 1914 Butterfield
street, Chicago, July nth, 1887, at eight
o'clock a. M, Ulysses f. G. Bradley, former
ly of this township, aged twenty-one years
and ten months.
From private letter written by our towns
man and friend, Jos. Kilburn, we learn that
he is enjoying himself to the fullest extent
away down near the eastern point of old
Massachusetts.
Richard Underwood, the old veteran of
two wars. recently received his pension for
services in the Mexican war and, like the hon
est man he is, at once made use of il TO pay
up his just debts.
Mrs. Scott. daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. j.
M. Brown, returned to her home in northern
Michigan on Thursday last, after quite a
prOIracleu NlslI WIFI ueT parents anu ITleuuS
in this village and vicinity.
Alegan papers speak favorably of the pros
pect of an extension of the narrow gauge
road from South Haven to that place. Sen
ator Monroe and other South Haven parties
have interested themselves in the project
Bert and Lucius Hilton, brothers of o. n.
and G. V. Hilton, arrived here on Wednes-
day last from Kansas City. Bert returned
last Friday and Lucius, after remaining a
few days, went to his home in Lowell, Mass.
Sellick's old, reliable dry goods house has
been changed to w. j. Sellck Il Son, Will
having become a partner III the institution.
We congratulate him on his promotion. The
new firm advertise some rare bargains in this
weeks NoRTHERSER.
Dakota exchange contains q notice of
the death Ada Josephine Maynard, a daugh-
ter of Levi and Anna Sturdevant, and for
mer resident of this county. Mrs. Maynard
was in her 25th year, and had been married
only about two years.
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